The 2014 DZone Cloud Platform Research Report brings together worldwide cloud providers into one free, exclusive report that offers impartial insight into 39 specific cloud platform providers.
Software producers are discovering new opportunities every day within the evolving marketplace of cloud platforms. To stay competitive, they need to know about the latest tools and strategies, and they need decision- making data about those tools. The DZone 2014 Cloud Platform Research Report is a competitive intelligence resource designed exactly for this purpose. Read this report and continue on to its companion site dzone.com/research/cloud to learn about:
Using cloud platforms in software production is a familiar practice for the majority of IT professionals. Our research reveals how rare it is to see engineering or IT departments with no plans to harness cloud computing benefits in some way. DZone’s 2014 Cloud Platform Research Report discovered that PaaS and IaaS solutions are indispensable systems for many successful organizations and that the industry has become accustomed to the features of the initial wave of cloud platforms. Although they are grateful for the benefits that current cloud vendors provide, many forward-thinking organizations are not satisfied with the trade-offs that many cloud platforms make. Our survey of IT professionals shows us that technologists don’t want to make trade-offs or be locked into prescriptive, one-size-fits-all solutions. They don’t want to make the choice between the security of private clouds and the elasticity of public clouds, they want both. That’s why hybrid clouds have become so popular, and that’s why Cisco, Oracle and IBM all announced hybrid-cloud-enabling products in the first month of 2014. Ideas about what an IaaS or a PaaS can be are changing. PaaS solutions are moving from constrictive, heavyweight systems to modular component chains that impose fewer trade-offs between ease of use and granular control, allowing engineering teams to build tailor-made solutions for the company’s use case. Technologists realize that cloud solutions have become more complex than just IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. This fact, more than any others, illustrates the extreme demand organizations have for the perfect fit when it comes to cloud platforms. The 2014 Cloud Platform Research Report is aimed at helping you find it.